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Sunday, 14 November 2010

More on this grooming business

Is it right that our humans should give priority to their own grooming needs?

I'm just asking 'cos I overheard Gail the other day saying to a friend "well at least if I deal with Bertie's coat myself, then I'm no longer spending more on the dog's haircut than on my own. Which was the case when Hamish was around..."

Talk about selfish!

Now a certain person disappeared for a couple of hours yesterday morning after our walk in the park, and I couldn't help but notice when she returned that the pathetic little patch of fur on her head was even shorter than before and had changed colour. Less 'Aberdeen granite' now, and more 'ripe cornfield in the setting sun'.

Do you think she's been hand-stripped?

Oh, I am being told to stop focussing on trivia and knuckle down to work on my forthcoming quantum physics lecture (Monday 22nd November). I know some of my readers were hoping this next class in my course for budding canine scientists would also involve a field trip. Well I regret to inform you that theoretical physics is a subject best practiced indoors, with one's head stuck in a textbook full of very complicated equations.....

17 comments:

Our mommy prefers to have her hair color described as "a silver mane". BOL. Bertie dear, we sure hope you aren't being pushed into the world of academia at too young an age. We didn't get into quantum theory until we were at least 2 years old. Have a fun week sweetie!Smooches,BabyRD & Hootie

You know Bertie, it really doesn't matter how much money Gail spends on her furs - she will never look as good as you!!!!We look forward to Monday's class and have our books ready.....well Martha has just eaten a couple of the pages but we are sure there was nothing important!love you lotsyour adoring Aunties xxxxps our human says she is sure Gail's fur is looking just lovely and we shouldn't have said that!!!

It is a mystery that my Mom gets older and older yet her hair never seems to get grey...of course, like clockwork every 5-6 weeks she gets some lady to cover her head with some stinky mud. She says it has something to do with roots but as a dog who spends lots of investigative time at the base of trees, I've never seen such things on her head.

This is a bit out of my area, since Pei don't need haircuts. I suck up a lot of grooming dollars, though, in dealing with breed related skin problems. I guess it all balances out in the end. I would just as soon have everything done at home, as I prefer not to be left in places. Maybe Gail will get really good at it in time. Think pawsitive.

Well Bertie as you know I go and get plucked at the groomers, I should go every 8 weeks but its longer, I think moms stuck in the 70's a bit of a mullet,Bay City Rolars look lol!!! she just gets it cut at the back and cuts the top herself, it looks dead funny sometimes!!!Looking forward to the quantum physics lecture!!! I think. Looks like it will be alot of thinking to!!!See Yea George xxx

Well, our Mom goes about with her hair as wild as our some days - and she has even left the house without brushing it first... She doesn't always remember to. She has secret stashes of combs everywhere she goes for days like that. Our fur sometimes looks better than hers, but don't tell her we said so!

Quantum physics...would that 'splain while Scruffy's breath smells really bad after Stan goes potty out in the yard...

It's almost impossible to type when one has one's nosie pinched shut...Yeesch...

Yes..we know how odd hoomans are with their fur...Mumsie dried and dried and dried her fur with the dryer today only to realize that their was only cold air comin' out of it...

Not as bad as it was one day this week when she showered and realized she had soaped up with my dogie extra conditioning fur shampoo...the one with the big Khyra-like Sibe on the front...IS SHE BLIND...she smelled just like me...

Odd...so odd...

I am not reading all 12 chapters of that book of yours...I have a new mystery to read...The Body in the Cubboard...

My vet said I need a special shampoo (for my itchy bits - otherwise I lick the areas raw) so mum spent about 27 pounds of your sort of money for a small bottle that will give me four or five washes. That's far more than mum's ever spent on shampoo for herself, and my dad was horrified at the cost even though the stuff works and keeps me away from trips to the vets and lots of pills.

See you in class next week - I always enjoy ripping into a good book, as I savour each section as I tear out the pages. Focusing on the small stuff could be fun.

Bewtiemommi has gotten so despewate she colows and stwips hew own haiw as well as mine..bad time si tell you..we awe not looking ouw best, sheeeshI pawsonally think you should always be the pwiowityI can't wait fow youw lectoowes not least of all because it would be lovely to show that I'm smawtew than mommi(Physics is the only class at oonivewsity whewe she weceived a shockingly bad gwade, BOLsmoochie kissesASTA

About Me

Hi, I'm Bertie, a wire-haired fox terrier pup. I live with Gail in Aberdeen, Scotland. An old Westie called Hamish used to live here but he died on 18th February 2010 (exactly the same day I was born). People tell me that he used to have a blog and that I have big pawprints to fill. That's a bit too much responsibility for a very young puppy - and anyway, I intend to make my own mark!
(Gail says that Hamish could certainly have taught me a thing or two about marking stuff....)